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Your thoughts please as to what causes colon polyps
Colorectal Cancer | Last Active: Apr 8, 2023 | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
jef9990
Don't beat yourself up trying to find a cause or blame yourself! It may be genetic like FAP or MAP but it may also be a genetic factor that has not yet been discovered.
LikeMe! Two years ago, I had zero polyps in my colon. In Nov, there were at least 50 and the GI doc removed 25, allpre-cancerous. Four GI docs and a surgeon said I needed a total colectomy. I was not ready to hear that and had read that the pre-cancerous polyps could be removed endoscopically. So, I went to Mayo in MN in Feb for a second opinion and possible removal of the remaining polyps. When the endoscopist came out after my colonoscopy, he told me that he saw hundreds of small tubular polyps and sessile polyps that had grown to 25 and 30 mm during that 3 months. By the way, I was negative for the two known genes for colon polyps. My case has doctors at Mayo and Duke scratching their heads. They cannot explain it but my future was determined that day. I am scheduled for a subtotal colectomy on April 19. Interestingly, they can spare my sigmoid colon and rectum because there were no polyps found there. Of course, there is still the worry that one of those hundreds has turned to cancer. You may never know the why. Deal with it as best you can and get regular colonoscopies if you are one of the lucky ones who can have them removed endoscopically. L
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God bless you and may the Lord guide the hands of your surgeons and give you healing and comfort as you have your surgery done and recover in Jesus name amen
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I have Lynch syndrome that's a rare genetic disorder. I wonder if you could possibly have that? I also have a case for the doctor scratch their head because I have two mutations in my msh6 Gene and that's your genetics, it's your DNA. Both times I've had cancer, colon cancer and then I had small ball cancer recently they remove the tumor, and then they do testing on the tumor and it doesn't show any mutation in those geans, but they know that I do have mutations in those genes, and it even has Ambry, which is the genetics lab scratching their heads. There is some strange things that happen. They're trying to figure out why this is happening to me, when they know I have a mutation but every time I have a tumor removed it doesn't show the mutation in those genes, which is impossible. I have two oncologist because of this. One that specializes in genetic disorders and one regular oncologist. And they both say that my case is a complete mystery mystery but thankfully I have a doctor that is like Sherlock Hlmes. Haha. Good luck though I hope they figure it out!!. And by the way I had my complete colon removed, procto-colectomey because of cancer when I was 38. It actually went really well and I haven't had any problems since.